By Jake Donovan - An appeal filed by the Ukraine Olympic boxing team on behalf of top-seeded middleweight Ievgen Khytro was denied, the AIBA announced Thursday evening.

The scoring in Khytro’s controversial loss to Great Britain’s Anthony Ogogo was questioned after the hosting nation’s fighter was the recipient of a double-countback win in Round of 16 competition. The two fought to an 18-18 tie in a bout featuring greater ebb-and-flow than any other on the day. A countback was ordered, in which the announced score was even at 52-52.

A final tiebreaker came down to who each individual judge had winning the fight. Each member of the five-person panel was required to press either the “red” or “blue” button, to vote for the winning corner. Three of the five voted in favor of “blue,” which advanced Ogogo to the quarterfinals. [Click Here To Read More]

Saddest part was watching Ogogo jump up and down and fist pump like crazy multiple times after having got beaten up for two rounds and given a draw, then a win in a fixed fight. Pathetic really. At least Anthony has enough common sense to have looked suprised by the result and known his nation pre-paid for his victory.

By Jake Donovan - An appeal filed by the Ukraine Olympic boxing team on behalf of top-seeded middleweight Ievgen Khytro was denied, the AIBA announced Thursday evening.

The scoring in Khytro’s controversial loss to Great Britain’s Anthony Ogogo was questioned after the hosting nation’s fighter was the recipient of a double-countback win in Round of 16 competition. The two fought to an 18-18 tie in a bout featuring greater ebb-and-flow than any other on the day. A countback was ordered, in which the announced score was even at 52-52.

A final tiebreaker came down to who each individual judge had winning the fight. Each member of the five-person panel was required to press either the “red” or “blue” button, to vote for the winning corner. Three of the five voted in favor of “blue,” which advanced Ogogo to the quarterfinals. [Click Here To Read More]

If they're so committed to "transparency", why was it an unusual step to reveal what is purported to be the true scoring. I see that one judge had it 8=3 and another had it 5-6.... Olympic scoring for the last 30 years to my certain knowledge has been absolutely the worst it could be. There have been boxers and cornermen who were so outraged that they occupied the ring for hours refusing to leave, and crowds almost lynched referees a few times.

Nothing that human language can conjure up can even nearly describe how bad Olympic judges and referees are.